Asian Games of Guangzhou

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A great match by Yazdani. He dominated an Olympic medallist who recently beat Gatsalov.

FILA Wrestling - WEB TV
120 kg greco semifinal. A painful match to watch, with a bizarre ending. Akbari just getting up from the parre terre position and standing around? The referee putting up "one blue" for no reason whatsoever?

No wonder Iranians are pissed- there is a lot of finger and singlet-grabbing in this match. On the contested pushout, Akbari clearly makes contact with Tinaliyev's legs, but I'm not greco-savvy enough to know if this should be enough to nullify the pushout.

I also watched Mansurov vs Yang. FILA Wrestling - WEB TV . Not sure why Mansurov wrestled at 55 here after going 60 at the worlds. Not real exciting, but he wins off a clinch counter (which the stupid camera misses) and a nice gutwrench to come back in the second period. IMO both these guys are better than Lebedev, this year's 55 kg world champ.

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A great match by Yazdani. He dominated an Olympic medallist who recently beat Gatsalov.

Do you recall this match? Jan 2010. Yazdani withdrew after the second period blowing a possible victory.

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